Henry fuseli

A compendium of various artworks in which dreams are depicted, including works by Blake, Grandville, Hokusai, Redon and Dürer.

Fascinated by the supernatural, Henry Fuseli's created dramatic illustrations of otherworldly scenes and creatures, ideas ultimately culminating in the Surrealism movement.

The Artist: The painter, draftsman, author, and art theorist Henry Fuseli (Johann Heinrich Füssli) was born in Zürich in 1741. A son of the painter and art historian Johann Caspar Füssli (1706–1782), he received a classical education at Zürich’s famed Collegium Carolinum, where his teachers included the influential philologists and Anglophiles Johann Jakob Bodmer and Johann Jakob Breitinger, who prepared the way for Fuseli’s lifelong engagement with English literature

[From October 2010] or “i dremt it in the hidden pantry with the freudo-oneirical screwdriver” … being a show-by-show TARDIS-esque (ie in effect random) exploration of Doctor Who Soup to Nuts, begun at LJ’s diggerdydum community, and crossposted[…]

Henry Fuseli was a Swiss painter, draughtsman, and writer on art who spent much of his life in Britain. Many of his works depict supernatural experiences, such as The Nightmare. He painted works for John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery and created his own "Milton Gallery". He held the posts of Professor of Painting and Keeper at the Royal Academy. His style had a considerable influence on many younger British artists, including William Blake.

St. John’s Vision of the Seven Candlesticks, 1796, Henry Fuseli.

Being Scottish a couple of hundred years ago was no easy task especially if you lived somewhere remote like the Highlands and Islands. Many folk struggled to make ends meet and it also resul…

The Nightmare (second version, c. 1790) by Henry Fuseli. “There’s something those fellows catch–beyond life–that they’re able to make us catch for a second. Doré had it. Sime has it. Angarola of Chicago has it. And Pickman had it as no man ever had it before or–I hope to heaven–ever will again.” (Pickman’s Model, 1926) […]

Wolfram observes his Wife in the Cell where he has imprisoned her with the Skeleton of her Lover John Henry Fuseli 1812-1820